bread of life
Soul's essential food
Bread of life is a title for Jesus Christ, drawn from the Gospel of John where Jesus declares himself spiritual sustenance: I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger.
The phrase extends to anything that provides essential nourishment for the soul or spirit.
In Christian worship, it connects to the Eucharist—bread as Christ's body.
Christian faith's divine son
- communionProfound shared closeness
- Last SupperFarewell Passover gathering
- gospelSacred choral tradition
- disciplesDevoted followers of teachings
apostles · messiah · sacrament · transubstantiation · liturgy · mass · altar · chalice
Exemption from death
- everlastingLasting for all time
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- resurrectionRevival from death
- perpetuityInfinite continuation of time
timelessness · paradise · heaven · salvation · transcendence · unending · infinity · promise
Food that sustains life
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
- mannaMiraculous sustenance from heaven
- sustainingMaintaining over time
feeding · hunger · satisfaction · fulfillment · essential · vital · nurturing · soul food
Jesus
Christian faith's divine son
- communionProfound shared closeness
- Last SupperFarewell Passover gathering
- gospelSacred choral tradition
disciples · apostles · messiah · sacrament · transubstantiation · liturgy · mass · altar · chalice · redemption
immortality
Exemption from death
- everlastingLasting for all time
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- resurrectionRevival from death
perpetuity · timelessness · paradise · heaven · salvation · transcendence · unending · infinity · promise · hope
nourishment
Food that sustains life
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
- mannaMiraculous sustenance from heaven
sustaining · feeding · hunger · satisfaction · fulfillment · essential · vital · nurturing · soul food · strengthening
belief
Trust held as true
grace · divinity · revelation · prayer · sanctity · holiness · piety · righteousness · creed · gospel
- Jesus' teachingsSermon on the Mount, beatitudes, Beatitudes, love your enemies, Lord's Prayer
- JohannineGospel of John, good shepherd, light of the world, Lamb of God, Word of God
- Biblical imageryLamb of God, Good Shepherd, light of the world, living water, mustard seed
- Christianesealtar call, backslider, blessed, born again, churched
- Mythic Foodsambrosia, nectar, manna, forbidden fruit, golden apples
- Scripture PhrasesJohn 3:16, Lord's Prayer, Our Father, Ten Commandments, Beatitudes
bread of lifespiritual death
Eternal separation from God
damnation · perdition · eternal death · spiritual emptiness · hellfire
bread of lifemammon
Wealth as deity
worldly pleasures · false gods · idols · forbidden fruit · empty promises
bread, life, breads, breaded, breading, breadth, live, lively, lifelong